Spring 2010

Scott Atran, Presidential Scholar, University of Michigan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Professor Atran offered
a number of case studies of the process by which individuals are recruited into violent
extremism, examining the role of networks of friendship and kin within contexts of neighborhoods,
schools, workplaces, and leisure activity.
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Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London

A strange story unfolded in the shadows of the legal and diplomatic furor that accompanied
the release, on 15 September 2009, of Richard Goldstone’s Report on the United
Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which alleged that the Israeli army
(and Hamas) committed war crimes and indeed that Israel might even be guilty of “crimes
against humanity.”
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Joshua Pilzer, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto

There are numerous ways to understand the place of violence in the lives of the survivors
of Japanese military sexual slavery during the Asia Pacific War (1910-45), but it is perhaps
most important to ask how survivors have thought about and responded to violence.
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